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HARVEST HYMN.
Once more the liberal year laughs out
O’er richer stores ban gems or gold ;
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is nature's blood ess triumph told.
Our common mother rests and sings
Like Ruth amoDg her garnered e heaves j
Her lap is full of goodly things,
Her brow iB bright with Autumn leaves.
O favors old, yet ever new !
O blessings with the sunshine sent!
The bounty overruns our due,
The fullness shames our discontent.
We shut otir eyes, the flowers bloom on ;
We murmur, but the corn ears fill ;
We choose the shadow, but the sun
That casts it shines behind us still.
God givf.s us with our rugged soil
The power to make it Eden fair,
And richer fruit to crown our toil
Than Summer-wedded islands bear.
Who murmurs at his lot to-day ?
Who scorns his native fru t and bloom.
Or sighs for dainties far away,
Besides the bounteous board of home !
Thank Heaven, instead, that freedom's arm
Can change a rocky soil to gold ;
That brave and generous lives can warm
A clime with Northern ices cold.
And by these altars wreathed with flowers.
And fields of fru.ts, awake again
Thanksgiving for the golden hours,
Tne e&rlr and the latter rain. _
“John, Come Here!”
a meteor a long black horse shot by, disap
pearing in the mist, leaving for John the
memory of a charming head, crowned with
blonde curling hair, two kind eyes bent
upon his own, and a white waving hand
extended in salutation.
“John,” said Mr. Steele, “did you see
the face of that man ? I count ppon your
saving Laura Did yon see his thin,
cruel lips, and treacherous eyes?”
“I only saw Laura, sir,” said John,
simply.
Later on Mr. Archibald Steele and his
plump, pretty wife were alone together in
their front parlor. Her dimpled hand lay
loving in his, and her shapely head, fresh
from the hands of the coiffeur, all unrum-
pled by the audacious hands of mortal,
peeped in at the door. Laura was pale;
her little white hands were clasped together,
and her musical voice trembled.
“Oh, papa, mamma, come directly!
Mr. Stuyvesant ventured too far, and—
and—”
“Was drowned?” said Mr. Steele, with
a queer combination in his voice of pit}' and
relief.
“No, no; how can you suppose so dread
ful a thing; He was rescued, but is very
weak and ill. He has asked for me, and
may I go? Will you not come with me,
mamma? Oil, do, I beg of you. Can’t
she, papa?”
Her blue eyes filled with tears; her little
feet seemed wanting to fly through the cor
ridors.
“Certainly not,” said Mr. Steele; “let
him wait till he is able to come to you or
me. Either the man is drowned or he
isn’t. Because he was imbecile enough to
risk his life is no reason for your being the
talk of the hotel. ”
Laura raised her eyes proudly.
“No danger of that, papa; and besides,
to the handsome and heroic founder of the
new school for teachingpeople the way to
be rescued from drowning.
These charming crdatnres spend so much
of their time at * the sea-shore, and it was
nice to be wise.
John was almost hidden in flounces and
laces; but when his eyes met Laura’s he
plunged. out of those costly billows with
his usual ease* and trepidity. There
something in Laiira's eyes that had never
seen there before; a tempting languor
bewitohing shyness; a bewildering splendor
that steeped his soul in a mad sweet hope.
Laura stopped oqe moment to w hisper to
her mamma, and John gasped out to Air.
Steele:
“If I dared—if I only dared to tell her
“I have told her Ay self!” said the mer
chant.
“That was I a pauper without home or
friends?”
“I told the story in my own way, John,
continued Mr. Steele, “and I flatter myself
I told it successfully; do not spoil it if you
please. I have managed the past and the
present; do you look out for the future,
John.”
And John did. Laura walk through the
parlor that night, envied of all the pretty
and sympathetic women and brave and ap
preciate men that congregated there.
Pretty, plump Mrs. Archibald Steele every one is occupied now with the one
wrote the following paragraph in one of her t j, at rescued him. ”
letters to her husband the other day: j “And what madman was that?” said
“John must come down here at once, 1 poor Mr. Steele, who could not recconcile
whether you can spare him or not. Our himself to the present condition of affairs,
dear little Laura is greatly taken with a tall, i ‘<j don’t know—-a-etjanger, I believe. I
thin young man with a hooked nose and waa go interested in Mr. Stuyvesant I forgot
thin lips,called Stuyvesant. It is whispered to ask.”
about the hotel that he is a very good) ‘*Bali!” said Mr. Steele, getting upon
match, and has the veritable blood of the his feet and walking to the door. “I’ll go
old Dutch governor in his veins. I must an d find out all about it. Do you 'Stay
say thivt it has a queer way of showing it- here till I return.”
self; for the young man is as pale as a j Before he had gone far,. Mr. Steele heard
spectre; and dressed in that white duck, ’from the excited guests several different
with his sunken eyes and bilious skin, is versions of the affair; but one and all agreed
enough to frighten one. 1 have grown to that the rescuer could be nothing less than
hate him, while Laura is growing to be a champion swimmer.
quite the contrarv I am afraid. All the, 4< . ,, . ,
1 . . , - • . it A regular water-dog! said one gentle-
evening Beleys up against the wall never man to ! Mr . Steele a " d ^ the me a chant
(lancing or opening his mouth save to give had beard thia ^ et but once before in
vent to some hateful .sarcastic(criticism llis U(e and tbat P n an occacion of vital in-
upon the scenes around him, and yet dean , „ ,, . » ,
r i . , j ,, A 4l terest to himself, he sought out the hero of
little Laura 8 eyes—as, indeed, all the other .. A „ . - ’ , . H . . , ,
Drettv eves alicmt—iue Deroetuallv beseech 0 0 ’ and found ’ t0 hls unlKmnded
pretty eyes about are perpetually bestccn toni8bmentj it was John Waters himself!
ways witha long black home 'that "overs : He wa8 c ‘ uite envelo P ed in the flounces and
furbeIo ^ of . P. re « ya “ d ^“Pathetic wo-
® men, who insisted upon knowing every
” Uen L.if onn . n .i :e l,„ r..i* ....
more ground with its legs while it
than any other animal 1 ever saw.
r - . . , . i , • . j , half-second if he was sure he felt strong
Laura goes out to drive behind it, and va-! , A ... , , ... - ,, ,,
. ,...... ..... , ’ , and well, and how in the world could he
rushes out of sight with the bonv creature, .^ , Af , . . ,
T . i., .r • i j . -a ,j i buffet those dreadful waves in that grand,
I tremble to think how dreadful it would be K _._ .. ... , - ,
if our dear little girl would ever be part ° ^
and parcel of this wretched man and his ^ 1 ’ y ^ esiore
beast. So I think John had better come j John ’ h . ke an Y . other hero of the hour,
down at one. I quite long to see his hand- 6 n j°jed hi| adulation, but looked anxious-
some face and hear his honest voice, and I, ^ at S te( u e when he approached,
think it is about time that John should tell j “Hum,” growled that worthy merchant,
his little story to Lanra, and have things “ a pretty fellow, you, to interfere with
settled comfortably. ” i other people’s plans. How do you know
Air. Archibald Steele smiled when he put: he wanted to be rescued?” -
the letter of his wife in his waist coat- /‘He appeared anxious that way, sir,”
pocket, aud, picking up the morning paper, ! Sfrid *John. “He wrapped himself about
scaned through his gold-rimmed spectacles ; me like a devil-fish. I thought at onetime
the news of the day. Finding nothing ; we d both go down together. There ought
therein to refine the exceedingly satisfactory ; fo he a school for teaching people how to
condition of his affairs, he put it down, • he saved. It’s the easiest thing in the
smiling as only a prosperous, contented, j world ; the water itself is an accessory, if
down-town merchant can smile. He was 3 r ° u manage it right.”
one of those happy exceptions to the ordi- j “Oh, do tell us how, Mr. Waters, please,”
nary rule of morals with whom everything ; chorused the pretty and sympathetic wo-
weut well. His whole experience was au 1 men; and as John began his lesson Mr.
exclamation-point to that effect. If he ven-1 Steele slipped away.
tured a little hazardously in trade, fortune
trimmed her sails to favor him. If he set
his heart upon anything relating to domes
tic felicity, all the elements of art and na
ture conspired to bring it about. So when
he stepped to the door of his office and bec
koned to a yonng man with a strip of com
mercial paper in his hand and a pencil be
hind his ear, with the general air of brisk
ness .and shrewdness about him that be
tokened a successful down-town merchant
embryo. Mr. Steele smiled the third time
with the air of one who was not at all
afraid of an}' bilious, blue-blooded obstacle
that might be thrown in the path of a do
mestic happiness which he firmly agreed
had been arranged by an Omnipotent hand.
“John,” said Mr. Steele, closing the door
of his private office, and looking upon his
young clerk benevolently, “I’ve got an or
der from Mrs. Steele which I wish you to
attend to. ”
“Certainly, sir,” said John; “shall I go
out and get the articles myself ?”
“Why the fact is, John,” said the mer
chant, enjoying his joke more and more,
“it’s only one article—a rather bulky one.
It was bargained for a long time ago. I
think you will have to go down with it,
John. ”
“Down to the sea-shore 1” said John,
getting a little hot ana flustered. “Is it a
very valuable parcel, sir?”
“Well, perhaps your natural modesty
may depreciate its worth, John. Mrs.
Steele and I think a good deal of it, and
Laura, too, I am sure, does. The commo
dity is yourself, John. Mrs. Steele wants
you to go down and take a little holiday
there.”
When the name of Laura was mentioned
the young man’s face grew more flustered
and hot than before.
“You are very kind, sir,” he said, and
Mrs. Steele is more like an angel than a
woman.”
“Rather solid and plump for that,” in-
teprosed Mr. Steele, but liking the phrase
nevertheless.
“But it is a simple madness, prusued
John, “to dream of further happiness than
“Oh, papa,” began Laura, “how is Mr.
Stuyvesant ?”
“I don’t know—I didn’t ask,” he replied;
“I was interested in the fellow that dragged
him ashore. He’s an old friend of ours.
The way we made his acquaintance w as on
such an •ccasion; he saved a lady from
drowning.”
“Why, papa,” said Laura, “he must be
a splendid fellow.”
“Magnificent 1” said Mr. Steele. “You
see, we had traveled over considerable of
the world together, your mother and I,
while you were yet a baby; and we found
it rather odd one morning to discover that,
having crossed the ocean and the Alps, loi
tered in the Highlands, traveled thence
down the Mississippi Valley, across the
American desert to California, and back
again by another route, your mother had
never been up the East river as far as Mor-
risania. It seemed so absurd to have deter
mined upon it at once. The morning was
wet, but w t c didn’t mind it. Your mother
looked prettier in a waterproof and rubbers,
with a shovel-hat tied down under her chin,
than most women would in a ball dress.
She wasn’t a bit afraid of rain or mud. She
was a little too reckless; for, getting ashore
to see the institution for vagrant boys, her
foot slipped off the plank, and she* disap
peared.”
Mr. Steele stopped a minute; his voice
faltered ; the plump little hand of his wife
slipped into his own; he clutched it and
went on again.
“One minute I saw her as neat and trim
a little figure as ever graced a waterproof
and shovel hat, and the next she was gone.”
“Gone !” cried Laura ; “gone w'here?”
“Into the water, child—into the hungry
green waves that surged up to take her
away from the fondest heart in the universe;
and if it had been for one of those very
vagabond boys who had been lurking there
for a chance to escape from the island you
would have lost us both, my dear; for I
made an agonized plunge after her, though
I am ashamed to say 1 cannot swim a stroke,
and should only have gone to the bottom
like a plummet of lead; but an official
I enjoy now'—your affection and that of i standing by caught and held me, and cried
your wife—my position here; I don’t dare, I out that Johnny Waters had her, safe as a
I can't hope for anything more. ^ Oh, Mr. trivet; and presently that vagabond boy
Steele, I can't tell her my story. She would came up with your sweet mother on the
turn from me with horror and aversion. j other side of the boat, and the officer cried
She is so young, so beautiful. Let me at out, “He’s a regular water-dog, that John-
At the Childrens’ Home fair, a
nice young man, sauntering around in
the vicinity of the floral department,
was suddeulv accosted by a fair young
girl, who held out a pretty nosegay to
him and said:
“Allow me to offer you this button
hole bouquet sir,” and she presented it
with bewitching grace.
“A thousand thanks,’’said the young
man bowing quite low, and taking the
flowers from her pretty fingers.
Now who the deirce is this fair
Flora, that she shoHld give me a but
ton hole bouquet?” was a question the
young man asked himself, as he con
templated the rosebud, the heliotrope,
the geranium leaf, and the jasmine
“The rose—that’s for love,” mused the
young man as he reluctantly turned to
go, “but blessed if I can tell what the
heliotrope, the geranium and jasmine
stand for, but I’ll find out before I sleep
w . if I have to ransack every bobk in the
“Why, who would suppose you could since the accident, and crumbling both the 1 public library.”
be such a coward?” said Mr. Steele, impe- J coiffeured heads in the most reckless man- j «»F,ffr, Pn PP * n t
tuously. “You will go down with me this; ne, . . ... . _ . .
very day. I “Papa,- she (hen said, “we must go and ’ lad - v > calhn « gemly after Inm _
All the way to the sea-shore John’s face find John; I want to tell him how much— y° un S mail grew white, red. and
were to look of one who had resolved to , I—” spotted by turns, handed her a dollar
storm a deadly breach, but who did not j “Yes, dear,” said MA Archibald Steele; j note, and without waiting for change,
hope to survive the attempt. * and all the way through the corridor and rushed out on the sidewalk, "and but-
Even the ocean, when it confronted | into the parlors of the hotel, with his j ted his head forty or fif ty times
them, wore a threatening look. Upon plump and pretty wife on one arm and his ; . th - d - f th h ildi hn
the horizon a pile of clouds formed a back- . beautiful daughter on the other, he sailed, j “ „ ,
ground wan and gloomy, a great black! But John was still surrounded by the ca Hcd upon all the gods that inhabit
mist lay in the zenith, and a dense red va- pretty and sympathetic women, who had ! blue empyream to look down upon
por almost touched the water. j cruelly deserted the blue-blooded descend-! th« doggondest fool that / ever lived
“A very nasty sea,” said Mr. Steele. I ant of the old Dutch governor, lying in his since the world began.
John snuffed it in, his eyes dilating, and most graceful and languid of attitudes on a 1 ■ ■ 1 f
his head high in the sea-scented air. i neighboring lounge—the descendant, not the I —A suit in the Tennessee Courts ran
A tramp on the hard, wet sand, and like Governor—and had flocked, one and aH, | rom 1832 to 1875.
least enjoy the present.
“And in the mean time some cadaverous,
bilious, blue-blooded scoundrel will carry
her off from us all. ”
Then John's face grew pale and«tero.
“If there is the slightest feeling upon her
part for—for any one else, then, indeed,
Mr. Steele, my case is hopeless."
ny Waters!” and these were the very
w'ords a guest here used in relation to John
a minute or so ago.”
“Jolyi!” cried poor bewildered Laura,
“our John? Mamma? Was John the boy?
And is it John, our John, that saved poor
Mr. Stuyvesant?”
“The very same darling John, our John;
The commercial paper fluttered from his he is always on hand when there is any
hand, the pencil fell from his ears, and he trouble or danger.”
leaned his head against the desk and trem-1 “Oh, mamma! mamma!” cried Laura,
bled. forgetting all the years that had passed
Carioag Coins.
London appears to be a rich hunting
ground for persons of numismatic
tastes. A private collector has recent
ly added to his stores four curious
coins, all discovered within sight of St.
Paul’s Cathedral. The first is a small
bronze seal, about the size of a shilling,
representing the martyrdom of St.
Stephen, with the legend f “^ece, video,
celos apertos.” It was discovered in the
mud of the Thames, near Westminster
bridge, and is in excellent condition,
the figures, and even the stones thrown
at the martyr, being quite sharp and
distinct, though it is clear, from a ref
erence to A'phonse Chassant’s u Paleo
graphic des Chartes.” that the seal is of
the J3th or 14th century. It is con
jectured that it was the seal of a guild
or confraternity of St. Stephen, proba
bly meeting in St. Stephen’s Chapel at
Westminster. Next in order comes a
leaden seal attached to a bull of Pope
Boniface IX.; this was found near the
Cannon Street Station. The others,
which are the rao9t curious of all, are
two gold coins of Ali Ibn Josef, third
king of the Almoravidse, one of the
Mussulman dynasty in Spain, who re
signed at Cordova in the 12th century.
The inscription in Cuflc characters on
each side may be rendered, “Non est
Eeus nisi Deus; Muhammed (est)
Apostolus Dei; Princeps(Ameer) Mus-
elmorum, All Ibn Josef.” On the re
verse is “Imam (Chalif) Abdallah,
Prince (Ameer) of the Faithful.”
Round the edges of each runs the
lej^nd. “In the name of God; this
~~ was Struct- .A.lm®nL-- In tb«
525” (dating from the Hegira),
crescent on these coins is very
cle&i ly marked; and is curious as
proving that the crescent had been as
sumed as the Mussulman’s symbol
long before the capture of Constanti
nople by the Turks. These coins were
offered as Chinese, and bought as pos
sibly Persian; and it was only when
cleaned and deciphered that their full
value was discovered.
A New Wav of Ostricli Hunting.
Two Odd Pets.
Morris Ash has a pet a sturdy young
wildcat. He is very tame, and between
him and Mr. Ash’s big dog a warm
friendship exists, the two frequently
piaying and rolling over one another
with their liveliest good nature and
enjoyment. The cat, however, is kept
out of deference to the prejudice of civ
ilization, at the end of a long chain.
Harry Fogg, of the People’s Market, is
the owner of a still more interesting
pet—a black eagle. The bird was
caught by a Piute Indian, about two
years ago, while yet a mere chicken.
Now he is a tremendous iellow with a
six foot spread of w ing. He is kept in
the back yard, in a stout wooden cage.
The bird is a beautiful one, his plumage
being as smooth and shiny as new satin.
He is fierce toward everybody but his
master, for whom he has a great regard
feeding from his hand and taking pleas
ure in having his feathers stroked and
his head scratched. His chief pleasure
is to bathe, just like a canary, in a
mammoth pan of water, which he sends
flying in all directions with his wings.
His food is principally raw beef, but
the hand of charity now* and again
throws him a live cat or chicken, and
then the eagle murders and eats with
intense satisfaction.
He Met Her At The Fair.
“Fifteen cents, please,” said the
' When I first went out to South Af
rica, my great ambition was to shoot
an ostrich; but although they were
plentiful enough where we were, they
seemed very wild and shy and would
not come within shot. At last, early
one morning, I came upon half a dozen
of them feeding together in an open
plain. Unluckily they were too far off
for an easy shot from the bushes where
I stood, and I knew that the moment I
came out into the open they would
be off. While I was wondering how to
get at them, I spied a single ostrich
coming up from the opposite side, aud
stopping now' and then to look about
him, I thought at first tnat he was
their sentinel, and had seen me; but
on he came, and soon joined the herd
who scarcelv seemed to notice him at
all.
I was just thinking of laying myself
flat on the ground, and'trying to creep
up within range, w hen, all at once, the
nearest ostrich rolled over like a log.
seemingly dead. The next moment
down toppled another, and then a third,
when the rest appeared to take fright,
and scurried away as fast as their legs
could cary them. In their flight they
passed within easy range of me, but I
w r as too much astonished to tire. Turn
ing round again, however, I saw that
the one which had come up last w'as
still in the same place, and I was just
thinking of trying to get a shot at him,
when all in a moment, the bird vanish
ed, and in its stead appeared the short,
black, shining body of a bushman !
For a moment I really thought 1 was
mad, or else in a dream; and then it
struck me that perhaps this might be
one of their hunting tricks I had heard
so much about; so I stepped forward
and gave a halloa. The man turned
round, and I recognised a famous na
tive hunter of our district, who was
said to have been out with Dr. Living
stone, and whom we used to call Mat
thew as the nearest approach to his na
tive name of Maheetu.
‘Halloa, Matthew!” cried I, “have
you turned bird for once?”
‘It’s the best way. baas” (master),
answered, grinning. “If you want to
catch ostriches, you must become an
ostrich yourself!”
And then he showed me how it was
done. He had fitted an ostrich skin on
his shoulders, with the head still at
tached, and a small rod thrust up the
neck to keep it straight; and now hav
ing whittened his bare limbs to make
them look like the legs of an ostrich,he
had gone in among the herd and shot
thetn one by one.
It was my first experience of the
trick, though I saw it often afterwards,
and a pretty smart nn<» it was
you think so ?
Gambling in Different Ages.
If Horace is to be trusted, the Ro
mans in the time of Augustus under
stood the art of loading dice as w ell as
the accomplished blackleg of this nine
teenth century ciyilizatlon. It is a
matter of history tbat Caligula convert
ed his house into a gambling hell, in
which he fleeced the “young bloods”
of the great Roman Empire in much
the same manner in which the youth
ful nobility of Europe are fleeced to
day in the gaming halls of the various
continental cities. The Chinese are
great card-players. They have.a num
ber of different kinds of cards. In the
Ching-tsze-tung, a Chinese encyclope
dia, it is stated that dotted cards were
invented in 1120 A. D. Cards in China
are dubbed “paper tickets,” and the
kind in general use called Tseen-wan-
che-pae—“a thousand times ten thou
sand cards.”
Wherever gambling was introduced
it met immediately with the popular fa
vor. In England, in the time oi king
John, throwing the dice was one of the
principal diversions of the people.
Charles II. called out to his favorite,
Rochester: “I’ll bet my soul to an or
ange on the game.” “If your majesty
will bet odds I w’ill take them,” coolly
responded the earl. As an instance of
the deep hold which the gansbling ma
ma has had upon the public mind, there
is a story current that in Paris, some
time in the year 1825, a man while seat
ed at a crowded gambling table deliber
ately placed a pistol to his mouth and
discharged it, and his fellow-players
continued the game without interrup
tion as the servants cleared away the
scattered brains of the desperate sui
cide. A still more remarkable story is
told of a man named Shelton, a sort of
low prize fighter, who staked first his
money on a game of cards, lost it, and
then w'agered his clothei, which were
also won by his opponent, who pro
ceeded to strip his adversary and ap
propriate the property. The infatua
ted wretch then put up all that re
mained to him to dispose of—his life.
Again was he unfortunate, and his
companion, aided by himself, had just
succeeded in hanging him to a lamp-
post when the arrival of a watchman,
who cut him down, prevented his
paying his rash wager in full. In re-
trafflc of this gret valley. A good one
is told by Joe Corel! in “Recollections
of the Stage.” ie was sitting in the
cabin of a stearnoat watching a quiet
game of effete^ when he observed that
another specitor, standing behind one
of the playeij was comunicating with
the opposite irtner and informing him
of the numt>t of trumps held by his
opponent braying on the table in
front of himthe same number of fin
gers. This on tin ued for some time,
the player ths “posted” winning all
the games. Inally the informer placed
one finger oijthe table, and quick as a
be^n gambler choppped it
off with a bofie-kni/e. “What do you
mean?—vouiiave cut off my finger,”
cried the wohded man. “Yes, and if
I bad had mre trumps you would have
lost more liners,” was the cool reply.
It has been liscovered by those who
have taken be trouble to give the sub
ject a carefi^study that there can be
nySUrjtaiy.t gambling. At rouge et
noir the plans so arranged that a cer
tain advantage of per cent must ac
crue to the link against the player or
all the mony staked on one event.
And no amont of calculation or man-
agement-canrary these odds against the
gamester/ Ivery game indeed admits
of cheating, rad in almost all cases it is
practiced. )ice are so “secured” tnat
a gime of hazard is nothing more nor
les» than Ttvbery. Carls are marked
shuffled, picked, pricked or skinned,
anil “profesionals” frequently use
cards with :onclave or convex edge, so
that their success depends upon the
delicacy oftheir sense of touch and the
steadiness >r immobility of their coun
tenance.
Amusements at sea.
.Ul the Cunard and other large steam-
bolts posicss a good library for light read
ing; besides which there are usually many
little solaeements for relieving the tedium
of tiicJffrst-4ass passengers. When the
weather is fiie there are games of shuffle-
board on the deck that draw' a? number of
Bud Chinese
Eugene G. Blackford, of Fulton Market,
New York, who found recently that white-
bait may be caught in the neighborhood of
New York, has just made another discovery
or revival. This is, that the anchovy, that
delightful fish which in the form of paste
or sauce is so familiar to epicures, may be
liad without going to Europe for it. Mr.
Blackford’s discovery was the result of in
telligent observation. When “whitebait'’
fishing was at its height here a few months
ago he noticed that a great many of the
fish brought to market were not of the gen
uine whitebait type. He carefully declined
to put these fish on the market, although,
as he says, other dealers are not so conscien
tious; and in order that the American w orld
might not be deceived, Mr. Blackford for
warded to Dr. Bean, of the Smithsonian
Institute, and to Professor Fred. Mather, a
well know T n pisciculturist, specimens of the
alleged whitebait. Then it w r as found that
these fish were nearly allied to the anchovies
of the Mediterranean Sea, the engraulis
cncra8icholus, the American fish being the
Vittatus. The American fish have been
known for a long time in these waters as
“spearing,” and when the question of
whitebait came up, were sold largely for
those fish at 75 cents per pound. They are
fonnd abundantly near Gravesend Bay, L.
L, and in the little inlets and bays on the
Long Island coast. The whitebait, Mr.
Blackford says, are the young of the her
ring, while the “spearing” are spearing
and nothing else. Within a week there has
been no catch of these fish, the large catch
of bluefish keeping them away. Formerly
when they were caught they were thrown
away as worthless, although the encyclope
dias recommend them as anchovies. White-
bait and spearings may be readily distin
guished. The latter are marked by a bright
silver stripe, one-sixteenth of an inch wide
on the lateral line. The remainder of the
body is semi-transparent, and through the
skin may be seen the stomach and intestines.
Whitebait has no mark along the lateral line
and is covered completely with fine silver
scales. Whitebait are caught mostly off
Bay Ridge, L. L
Like so many peculiar things in the
Celestial Empire, the system of breeding
the Chinese oyster differs widely from
that pursued in Europe and America.
In the southern parts of China “collectors”
of bamboo are placed in the oyster beds,
the affair was accepted as correct, especial
ly in view of the fact that there w4s noth
ing in the appearance of the deceased to
contradict the story. So a hasty funeral
wras got up, and the offending parent was
put under the sod as speedily as possible.
Then there being no further impediment
in the wav the young people proceeded to
consummate their happiness, and “the fun
end meats coldly furnished the wedding
feast.” But the bride had a bad habit of
talking in her sleep. The young husband
arose from the nuptial couch the next morn
ing with a face ashen and white with a ter
rible fear. In the horror of her slumbers
the young wife had betrayed her fearful se
cret. In the gray of the early dawn he
taxed her with her crime, and woman like,
she confessed it. But she went a step fur
ther and with many a frantic sob and ten
der caress told him that he was the cause.
“Me the cause!” exclaimed the horrified
youth. “I never dreamt of such a terrible
thing.”
“But I loved you, and my father stood
in the way, I could not lose you, and
killed him.”
Of course she pleaded for forgiveness and
silence. What human being, man
woman, would not. It is easy to imagine
her despair and grief, her pleadings and up-
braidings— how’ her white arms clung
around him ; how her tear-stained face was
pressed to his with kisses. But her grief
and entreaties ware alike unavailing.
“I have a duty to perform to my God
and conscience,” the young man said.
“And you will betray me ?”
“I must!”
Perhaps the discovery that his wife was
a fiend led him to the resolution. Perhaps
the horror of her crime made her dreadful
in his sight. Who may analyze his feelings
under such emotions. But he did as he
said he would. From the nuptial couch he
went to the magistrate and told his tale of
horror and dismay.
A Clever Adventuress.
The elderly Spanish woman arrested re
cently at Auteuil, a suburb of Paris, by or
der of the Spanish government, and about
whom so many different stories have been
told, proves to be the notorious adventuress
that swindled the Madrilenos, two or three
years since, out of near $2,000,000. She
opened a banking house m the capital; re
ceived deposits, paying 20 per cent, on re-
players and onlookers. The pieces of | H,e «hiinto? “ipt thereof, and at the end of the fourth
woijdarefl!! diskse-isilvhandled in shovine i mucd the saute tasmon as the elainrr nionth cave 80 per cent, more, stdl owmij
wooa arena (lisaseasily nanaieamsnovnig! atetilesand « bive9 » empl oyed in F ran Ce . , bp amn.ml StramS as if
them alonjrto a goal, as in the case of i tue original amount, m range as it may
howls Tlis forms an acreeable recreation i bos f. oyster-catchers are, however, P r( -- seem, tin; Mddrilenos, so dazzled were they
now ,s 1 us iorms an agreeame recreation d m a cunous manner. The cans are : bv nrmn<1( . t of ’ in a i Iow( , d ber to have
and affords good exercise. When oi*dr«r £ d for abQut twQ months ^ the rays S 000
ctiWe the saloon has-»ta r , of ‘; be nd then laced for a 8imi /ar j - eIr t0 ^ e - XteDt ° f f“’ 50 -°> 000 -
rs busy at something .orT period jn wateij l ' after which tUey are !
- wdl be playing whist, ; ^in dried for several days, the object be- i
i wa . ch , ln =. a S 81116 at ! ing to preserve them from decay and pro- i hndnaid about ”*'700 000^"in interest and
cheM; a third party will be listening to a L^ t twisting or warping of the bamboo. ZK wk/tKst The govemmenl
thnlkng tale of the sea by an a Notches are then cut in the canes, into afrents had been looking for her a longtime
fourth party is attending to a game of back- which shells are fixed, like so j SSS S Auteuil where she
gamiton. In the evening when lamps are ; £ J J , u DreDared They are' ,. y . l ) A “ teml > '' aere she
lio-ht<d then* iq sometimes a kind of muni-1 , . y C . U P 9 > ana l “ lls P rt P areu ar /; was living with her sister m great luxury.
n 0 nu«, mere is sometimes a iana oi must dnven mto the seashore between high and Q.,e is the widow of Senor T «irrn thenonu-
cal concert for which an obliging young la-1, . , , eft gtandlDff t o catch , W1 , , , ° r . ra ’ inepo P u
dv rt nerlmns a musically inclined miner ' , waier mark, ana leii sianamg to caicn ] ar sa t iri8 t who, not long since, as a satire
ay, or pernaps, a musical!} mcnnea purser, th{J Those localities are con- on blow out his brains, an act
preadefi at the piano. Often m slupa of this , the best where the rise and fall of ° h ‘ ’ e «ems to lrnvT nerfonn/d
descnption there is a good deal of heavy tb tide is d m tbat b i V alves ; tb , j ata i rega ]t f or the creditors of
bettmg. The he s will be as to he day | be atterna f el cov ’ ered b tbe flood and j ^ a dv e 2 r » "he had been tnt to
and hour of arrival at port, what will be the i ; , , , on «. e ebb Tb( , re tbe VO umr i ,, a ?y en, “ rtss - . had Detn sent to
number of ihc first nilot boat thRt'fct-esentq i exposcaioan- onme eoD. mere ineyoung Madrid, where justice wnll promptly be
number of >ke tot pilot boat^ha^p-tsents oysters thnTe „ and develop rapidly and | meted ‘’ u t to her. This affair closdy re-
sul^^fTyndicuIous and tile cause of Uiucfi I 1 **® -unite ready for the market w*an du'i" "cmbles thecaac-of Frauleiu Adeierpitzeder,
runout also the loss of a good deal of I are . l>v “. J ’ ears oia ' A Iar ft e trade is earned . w ho set up a similar bank in Munich some
money. In all well reguhfted vessels ! °“ by “* c !>“*>■“ who pursue the callmg, She paid 10 per cent a month,
the ship officers are strictly- excluded from 0U T, u ‘ bese : and lem money to the aristocracy wlW
gaming/r betting. The "youngsters who ! ““ ! “f,d “>!“n I temporarily embanked, at
happen to be on board have their own ;. . f . ‘ T m • rates still more exorbitant. Millions of
aumsauents in the games and sports of quan ™J 0 }“{^ ovstere are drioUn* ^ -° rinS passed her h™ 118 - She lived like a
children. To these juveniles the cow is an ‘“ff, ^ ^ • 8 °! . oy8ter8 ar ® dned ’ n '
s cad °f berng eaten m a fresh state..^For, was very charitable to the poor,
that purpose they are taken from the shells, aIld won a good - name wUich vario us accu-
simply plunged into boiling water, and hen < cou f d not burt Hhe continued her
removed at once after which process they : bank for ei ht employing fifty clerks
are exposed to the rays of the sun until. and book . k ° ee p^ a ’ nd would have contin-
eveiy particle of moisture has evaporated ■ ued a , Zdshe not suddenly been ar-
In that state they will keep for a length of ; re8ted for 6 p. aud and thrown into prison,
time, and are said to preserve all the deli- j That cau8ed her downfalL H er credit was
cacy of their flavor The finest and fattest ruined her s| was {orced t0 sbm
bivalves, bred and fed on the leaves and | jj er i iabilitie8 were five times greater thin
Cuttings ^ of the bamboo, are selected for her She was tried and condemned
preparation by that method, those taken
from the natural beds being inferior in
quality, and not sufficiently plump to stand
the operation.
her assets. She was tried and condemned
to three years’ imprisonment for swindling.
server for what he termed his officious
ness in preventing bis paying a debt of
honor. One of the oldest baronets in
England, having lost every cent of his
fortune at faro, was obliged to drive a
stage coach for the means of liveli
hood. At a certain trial in one of the
English courts of justice, in 1837, it was
proved against lord de Ros, one of the
most respectable of the gaming nobility
that he was in the habit of cheating by
means of a certain trick in whisc. He
did not long survive the disgrace of the
public disclosure of hfs guilt, and after
his death Theodore Hook suggested as
an epitaph: “Here lies England’s pre
mier baron, patiently awaiting the last
trump!” said a young man to the witty
Sheridan, “I know a man who cheats,
but I do not like to expose him; what
shall I do?” “Back him,” was the
quiet reply. Innumerable stories are
told of the Mississippi gamblers who
reaped speh rich harvests in the “good
old times,” before the iron horse had
interfered so seriously with the river
amusements in the games and sports of . - .r ^ . . . , . i *.^»**o jtooouu uu u*uu a . uuc n.uu mvc a
Child.™ To these juveniles the cow is an ' ! )f h „ in „ ’ 0 ° J, ? ^ ; Princess ; started and supported a news-
object ef much interest. The poor animal
which is required for the sake of its milk,
occupies (as we have it) a booth at the eor-
of one of the paddle boxes. There,
well bedded and tied up cow fashion, it is
observed munching its food with the most
perfect placidity, although a thousand
miles fh):n home and the sea all around
with loag sweeping waves, might be sup
posed t) disturb its equanimity. For air it
has a d'tor with the .upper part left open.
Stretching over the lower half-door, the
children look in and make their comments
the comfortable quarters, speak of the
nice smell of the hay and wonder if the cow
is ever seasick. We have seldom seen a
fractious child in arms who had not been
soothed by being treated to a look at the
cow. This practice of taking cows to sea
is one of the luxuries of modern traveling.
A concern such as the Cunard has an esta
blishment of cows at Liverpool and New
Y ork, and there is a change of .animals
each voyage. A curious life that for a cow.
Twelve days browsing in a field and
stretching its legs and the next 12 crossing
the Atlantic. If one of these cows could
write the story of its life, it might tell of
having crossed the Atlantic 150 times and
seen a good deal of the w'orld.
Lafitte, the Banker.
In the zenith of his prosperity as a
world-renowed banker, Lafitte retained the
same principles of frugality and saving that
characterized him in his days of indigence.
He was never the avaricious and grasping
miser, but be was ever the parsimonious
saver. He would scold,- and sometimes
read his clerks a lecture upon their wilful
waste of a pen, a piece of paper, or an inch
of twine; yet he had a vein of charity, and
could be magnificent in his benevolence.
One morning a lady entered the boudoir
of the banker, to solicit his subscription to
some charitable object. He appeared some
what ruffled in his temper just at the mo
ment, but fie received her graciously, as a
Frenchmar.4^!^ s how.
“What do .vSkpqifire, my good sister?”
asked the banie^
“Sir,” she replied. “I come to you on
behalf of my distressed neighbors; their
necessity is great.”
“Indeed !” you hare called at the right
time, for just now I am angry with that
gentleman for wasting my wafers.” At
the same time-ire-pointed to a young man
seated at a desk, who smiled, but was evi
dently disconcerted.
The benevolent lady pretty much con
cluded that her mission would be a fruitless
turn, he threatened to chastise his pre-^ on6j and th a t her visit might not be with
out some good result, she amiably applied
herself to excusing the fault of the clerk,
who had called down the reproof #f the
careful money dealer by not making ofie
wafer serve to seal two letters. Lafitte
listened attentively and afterwards present
ed to the,lady a check for one thousand
francs, saying at the same time:
“If, in my career, I had not economized
in trifles, it would not be so easy for me to
have contributed to-day to the excellent ob
ject which you have in hand. Pray, look
in upon me from time to time.”
Half of Jt.
The other day a pretty girl at one of the
tables in the charity fair offered-a bunch of
roses to a gentleman.
“How much?” said the gentleman, a
well-known sharper at the stock exchange.
“Four dollars,” said the lady.
“Four dollars! Good heavens, madam,
I might as well be robbed in the street.
However, may-be you’ll sell me half of it.”
“Why, certainly,” said the lady, and
with a clip of the scissors (Oit the roses in
two and handed him the stems.
“Two dollars, if you pleese,” she said.
He paid without another word.
A Steam Wedding.
Recently the eastward bound train
drew up to the little station of Rich
mond, on the Stonington (Con.) Rail
road, and a man of some seventy win
ters and a maiden of some twenty-five
summers stepped to the platform. Rev.
Mr. — was in waiting with his car
riage to take the couple to his residence
where the ceremony was to be per
formed which should make them man
and wife. But instead of the youthful
pair entering the carriage the bride-
groom-expectant hurriedly inquired
when the next westward bound train
was due. On being told that only five
minutes would elap3e before that im
portant event, he ejaculated, “I am in a
hurry! We mu9t return by the next
train! It’s going to rain! We must
be married!” They entered the hum
ble waiting room of the depot, there to
take upon themseives the bonds that
none but God can put asunder. Time
moved slowly, but they moved exceed
ing sure. Considerable of the limited
time was consumed in filling out the
certificate, &c., until the acation agent
suggested that the time was “only two
minutes now.” Just then the west
ward bound train rounded the curve,
approaching the'statfbn just as if there
never were such things in all the world
weddings and perplexed youths and
maidens. But the reverend servant of
Hymen was equal to the occasion and
brought the affair to a speedy crisis as
follows:
“Join hands. You take this man to
be your husband?”
“Yes.”
“You take this woman to be your
wife?”
“Yes.”
“I pronounce you man and wife!”
Some silver dollars jingled merrily
and the conductor called “All aboard!”
The train left the station and with it
the happy pair.
A Fatal Dauehter.
Not long ago, a Kansas girl proposed to
The Story of an Invention.
Rather more than a hundred and fifty
years ago a potter named Astbury was
making a journey on horseback from Staf
fordshire to London, and while trapping at
Dunstable he had occasion to seek aid for
weakness in the eyes of his horse. Having
made known his wants to the hostler of the
inn at which he was staying, the latter un
dertook the asked-for assistance, and this
he did by taking a piece of flint, calcing, or
burning it to powder, in the fire, and blow
ing some into the horses eyes. It is said
that the change produced in the flint by
burning, from a black stone to a white
powder, at once struck the potter with a
brilliant idea. “Would it be possible to
produce white flint ware harder and more
durable than white ware made entirely of
clay?” The idea appears to have been no
sooner conceived than it was carried out.
Collecting some flints from the neighbor
hood of Dunstable, Astbury took them with
him to Staffordshire, and the result was
thoroughly satisfactory, and indeed more
than realized his expectations, for powder
of calcined flint, mixed with pipe-clay, was
found to produce a most excellent ware.
Thus a new branch of the art of pottery
was at once established and took firm root.
Artificial Fuel.
An invention lately brought out in Eng
land consists in mixing the dust of coal
with an extract obtained from boiling ordi
nary seaweed or other similar vegetable
matter, producing when boiled a similar
mucilaginous or adhesive solution. In car
rying the invention into effect they first boil
seaweed or other vegetable product capable
of yielding when boiled a mucilaginous or
adhesive solution, and then mix coal-dust
with the said solution in the ordinary man
ner in which cement, mortar, or other sim
ilar material is mixed. The combined ma
terials are then molded to any desired shape
by hand, or by means of a brick-making or
other suitable machine. The same solution,
when combined with sawdust or other suit
able material, may be formed into blocks
for filtering purposes.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
How to Cure Stammering.
No stammering person ever found diffi
culty in singing. The reason of this is that
by keeping time, the organs of speech are
kept in such a position that enunciation is
easy. Apply the same rule to reading or
marry without her father’s consent. But as ‘ speech, and the same result will follow,
the old gentleman had threatened to inter- j Let the stammerer take a sentence like this
pose some very disagreeable impediments j one, “Leander swam the Hellespont” and
to her course, she concluded that the best pronounce it by syllables, scan it, keeping
thing for her to do would be to get him out time with his finger, if necessary, letting
of the way. As they lived alone the pro- j each syllable occupy the same time thus,
posed murder was of easy contrivance. It Le-an-der-swam-the-Hel-les pont, and he
was accomplished while he was asleep by j will not stammer. Let him pronounce
pushing a shoemaker’s awl through the top slowly at first, then faster, but still keeping
of his head into his brain. The old gentle- ! time with words instead of syllables, and
man probably expired without a struggle, j he will be surprised to find that, by very
The affectionate daughter then washed ( little practice, he will read without stam-
away the few drops of blood which had | mering, and nearly as rapidly as persons
oozed from the wound, and immediately , ordinarily talk or read. Then practice this
alarmed the neighborhood with the news in reading or conversation until the habit
that her father had died in bed at night, is broken up. Perseverence and attention
possibly of heart disease. Her version of' are all that is necessary to perfect a cure.
—Philadelphia has 552 churches.
—Galveston, Texas, is assessed at
$17,000,
—The number of insane people in
Illinois is nearly 4,000.
—There are 20,000 unmarried women
in Philadelphia.
—Ben. Butler has an income of
$75,000 a year.
—There is not an idle furnace in the
Lebanon or Lehigh Valleys, Pa.
—Foreign dolls alone paid Uncle
Sam $110,000 in duties in 1877.
—Gov. Robinson, of New York, is 81,
and the oldest Governor in the land.
—A Bristol R. I. man has made 100
pairs of rubber boots in 100 hours.
—Atlanta, Ga., ha3 fifty-eight tele
phonic exchanges.
—The area of Pennsylvania is about
43,000 square milee.
—Fifty different species of tobacco
are described by botanists.
—The International Exhibition in
Mexico in 1880 is likely to be given up.
—The banks ot York, Pa., have re
solved to neither take nor pay trade
—The New Haven, Conn., public
school teachers are to have their salar
ies reduced.
—During the twelve months ending
the first of last March, Chicago packed
nearly 5,000,000 bogs,
—A larger quantity of tobacco will
be cultivated in Cumberland county,
Pa., this year than ever before.
—In the Mississippi penitentiary
there are over 200 convicts who are im
prisoned for life.
—The principal of the Titusville, Pa.,
schools has been arrested for cruelly
beating a pupil.
—The tomb of Napoleon III, is cover
ed with fresh flowers every day by or
der of Eugenie.
—iLcosts, so says a current item, the
farmers of the United States $20,000,000
annually to do their plowing.
—The Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, has sent oat upon the
land 7,205 doctors.
—The population of Spain is now es
timated at about 17,000,(X)0, an increase
of nearly one million since 1860.
—The Five Cent Savings Bank of
Lowell, Mass., has-been closed by the
Bank Commissioner.
—Captain Paul Boynton is going to
swim the ConnecticutRiver from Hart
ford to Say brook.
—Mr. II. D. Parker, of the Parker
House, Boston, Mass., is worth 2,500,- .
OuO.
—Mora snow on Mouut Washington
the past winter than for forty years be-*
fore.
—Each day in April the pipe lines
took 50,883 barrels of oil from the wells
in the Venango region.
—Seventy vessels from five to seven
ty tons burthen, with 350 men, are now
engaged in the Key West sponge trade.
—A Nebraska man, with, the aid of
sixteen men, has planted 52,000 trees
on his claim in eight days, tnis spring.
—A farmer on the shores of Lake
Ontario has had nine acres washed
away in twenty year3. He is evident
ly losing ground.
—The official returns of the Califor
nia election show a total vote of 140,000
and a majority of 9,600 for the New
Constitution.
—Enough cloth can be woven in
Massachusetts in sixty days to supply
all the people in the United States with
clothing.
—The yield of petroleum in the
United States last year was 616,007,004
gallons. The quantity exported was
valued at $46,574,974.
—William Jay, a lad of Penn town
ship, Chester county, Pa., died recently
from lockjaw. He stuck a thorn into
his foot and the wound festered.
—Colonel King, a Texas cattle man,
has a fence seventy-five miles long, en
closing about 337 square miles, on which
range 110,000 beasts.
—Among the twenty-three new con
verts which Bishop Whipple recently
confirmed at St. Paul, Minn., were
twelve Indians.
—His Holiness the Pope has con
ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of
St. Gregory the Great on Mr. Daniel
Thomas Murphy, of California.
—William Gale, of Cardiff, has just
completed, at Bradford, England, the
unexpected feat of walking 2,500 miles
in 1000 consecutive hours.
—Mr. Caird, the agricultural statisti
cian, estimates the capital of English
landlords at *1,000,000,000, and of Eng
lish tenants at $2,000,000,000.
—Mr. William R. Cushing, of Matta-
poisett. Me,, has dug his grave, board
ed it up inside, covered it up in good
shape, and is only waiting for the final
dissolution of all things.
Among the Seminole Indians there
is a tradition th^, Florida was once in
habited by a half-civilized race, who
were artisans and great in wealth and
war.
—The flowers used for decorating
Queen Victoria’s apartments at the
British Embassy, in Paris, on the oc
casions of her two recent visits there,
cost $3000.
—There are 50,000,000 acres of land
California fit for cul ivation, and not
over 5,000,000 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 8,000,000 are en
closed.
The salary of Whitelaw Reid, of
the New'. York Tribune, is $12,000.
Hurlburt, of the World, receives $8,000
year. Charles A. Dana, of the Sun,
gets a salary of $12,000.
—An English company has been
formed with a capital of $1,250,000 to
establish a line of steamers to run be
tween Baltimore and Barrow-in Fur
ness, for the transportation of cattle.
—The land in Ireland is cultivated
by 600,000 tenants, wno occupy an
average of thirty-two acres each. There
are '16,000 landlords, of whom 1,942
own two-thirds of the whole country.
—The largest cultivated wheat farm
on the globe is said to be the Grondin
farm, not far from the town ot Fargo,
Dakota. It embraces some 40,000 acres
both Government and railway find,
and lies close to the Red river.
—The crown given by the King of
Spain to Queen Mercedes on their wed
ding day was made In Madrid, and
cost $100,000. A necklace made with
forty pearls cost $60,000, and a few sol
itaires $40,000.
—The inventor of shoes for walking,
on the water gave an exhibition at
Memphis, Tenn., recently. He stepped
boldly off the levee, but immediately
sank into the river and was nearly
drowned when rescued,
—D.iring the past year, 1878, Herr
Fuchs states that the number of vol
canic eruptions over the world reached
the unusuallv high number of 12; that
they were at places far apait, and were
mostly from little known and inacces
sible volcanoes.